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"Grand Slam" Language Session: Baseball Terminology with Patricia O'Conner

Scott McLeod

Beanball, bender, bleeder, brushback, bull pen… baseball has a language all its own. Today on Talk of Iowa, English language expert Patricia O’Conner "plays ball." Host Charity Nebbe talks to O'Conner about baseball lingo and, of course, she answers your language questions.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa